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Higher Education Committee advances SB 638 to create statewide workforce coordinating entity
Summary
The Assembly Higher Education Committee voted to pass SB 638 to the Appropriations Committee after debate over the scope, funding and potential duplication of a proposed statewide workforce coordinating entity and changes to Career Technical Education incentives.
The Assembly Higher Education Committee on a special hearing voted to pass SB 638 to the Appropriations Committee after debate over how to structure and fund a proposed statewide workforce coordinating entity.
Senator Richard Padilla, the bill’s author, told the committee SB 638 “does primarily two things: it creates a coordinating entity or body… and adopt regulations to better administer programs related to career tech education, career pathways, and workforce development.” Padilla said the measure also directs additional resources to high-unemployment, low-income regions and ties into the state’s broader workforce and career-education policy work.
Supporters said a central coordinating body would reduce fragmentation across existing state workforce and education programs. Alex Graves of the…
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